A lady stops to pay her aspects Saturday at the scene where 29- year-old journalist Lyra McKee was fatally shot in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

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A female stops to pay her respects Saturday at the scene where 29- year-old reporter Lyra McKee was fatally shot in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Brian Lawless/AP.

Cops in Northern Ireland have apprehended two males in connection with the shooting death of a 29- year-old reporter in Londonderry on Thursday night.

Authorities say they arrested an 18- and 19- year-old under the U.K.’s questionable Terrorism Act and took them to the Musgrave Serious Criminal Activity Suite, a cops station in Belfast.

Cellphone video released by cops shows journalist Lyra McKee taking photos with her phone shortly before she was shot, most likely by a stray bullet, according to cops. The shooting occurred during rioting in Derry’s Creggan community, a fortress for dissident groups such as the New Irish Republican Politician Army and Saoradh, which aim to bring about a joined Ireland.

U.K. government-backed forces entered the community with armed troops and armored cars. Police were browsing for weapons they presumed would be used in an attack over Easter weekend.

Saoradh said in a statement on Friday that McKee’s death was unexpected and that the shooters were protecting their neighborhood versus state-sponsored violence. It likewise recommended U.K. government-backed forces got in the community to grab headings throughout U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island, Joe Zefran reports for the NPR Newscast unit.

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” A republican volunteer attempted to protect people from the PSNI/RUC,” the group stated, pointing out the acronyms of Northern Ireland’s present and previous police forces. “Tragically a young reporter, Lyra McKee, was eliminated accidentally.”

Authorities say the violence magnified when a gunman focused on police who were searching the location. Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton called the shooting “a terrorist act,” which was “carried out by violent dissident republican politicians.”

” The New IRA is a small group who decline the 1998 Excellent Friday Agreement that marked the Irish Republican Army’s welcome of a political solution to the long-running violence understood as ‘The Troubles’ that declared more than 3,700 lives,” according to The Associated Press

A leader for one of Northern Ireland’s largest political celebrations, Sinn Féin, called McKee’s death “a human catastrophe for her family.”

” Those people who performed this attack have attacked everybody,” deputy leader Michelle O’Neill stated. “They have actually assaulted the neighborhood. They’ve attacked the people of Derry. They’ve assaulted the peace procedure, and they’ve assaulted the Great Friday Contract.”

McKee was called Sky News’ young reporter of the year in 2006, and Forbes magazine recognized her as one of their 30 under 30 in media in Europe in 2016, the Washington Post reported She is possibly most remembered for her post, ” Letter to My 14- Year-Old Self,” which chronicled her struggle growing up gay in Northern Ireland and the later approval she got from her household.